Alan Akbik

52 papers · 2012–2026 · 7 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🐝 Cross-Pollinator (9) 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (6) 🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge 🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird 🌍 Conference Polyglot (7) 🏃 Academic Marathon (13) 🗺️ Taxonomy Completionist (64) 🌟 Keyword Trendsetter Combo (3) 🌱 Topic Pioneer 🧬 Topic Evolution 🏆 Keyword Champion (2) 💎 Century Club (50) 🔥 Unstoppable (14) ⚡ Prolific Year (10) 🗃️ Keyword Collector (172) ❓ The Questioner 📈 Trend Setter

Conferences

ACL (13) EMNLP (12) COLING (9) NAACL (8) EACL (5) IJCNLP (4) CONLL (1)

Top co-authors

Patrick Haller (8) Jonas Golde (8) Max Ploner (8) Yunyao Li (8) Roland Vollgraf (5) Laura Chiticariu (4) Ansar Aynetdinov (4) Elena Merdjanovska (3) Marina Danilevsky (3) Felix Hamborg (3)

Keywords

named entity recognition (10) language model (6) zero-shot learning (6) text classification (5) transfer learning (5) sample efficiency (4) sequence labeling (4) few-shot learning (3) large language model (3) entity linking (3) semantic role labeling (3) curriculum learning (2) knowledge base (2) semantic similarity (2) entity disambiguation (2) knowledge probing (2) knowledge distillation (2) cross-lingual transfer (2) model selection (2) multilingual nlp (2)

Papers

FiNERweb: Datasets and Artifacts for Scalable Multilingual Named Entity Recognition EACL 2026

Using Subword-Embeddings for Bilingual Lexicon Induction in Bantu Languages EACL 2026

TransformerRanker: A Tool for Efficiently Finding the Best-Suited Language Models for Downstream Classification Tasks NAACL 2025

LM-Pub-Quiz: A Comprehensive Framework for Zero-Shot Evaluation of Relational Knowledge in Language Models NAACL 2025

Familiarity: Better Evaluation of Zero-Shot Named Entity Recognition by Quantifying Label Shifts in Synthetic Training Data NAACL 2025

Evaluating Design Decisions for Dual Encoder-based Entity Disambiguation ACL 2025

Pre-Training Curriculum for Multi-Token Prediction in Language Models ACL 2025

Question Decomposition for Retrieval-Augmented Generation ACL 2025

From Data to Knowledge: Evaluating How Efficiently Language Models Learn Facts ACL 2025

Towards a Principled Evaluation of Knowledge Editors ACL 2025

Measuring Label Ambiguity in Subjective Tasks using Predictive Uncertainty Estimation ACL 2025

Babies Learn to Look Ahead: Multi-Token Prediction in Small LMs EMNLP 2025

Sample-Efficient Language Modeling with Linear Attention and Lightweight Enhancements EMNLP 2025

Token-Level Metrics for Detecting Incorrect Gold Annotations in Named Entity Recognition EMNLP 2025

Lemma Dilemma: On Lemma Generation Without Domain- or Language-Specific Training Data EMNLP 2025

Improving Online Job Advertisement Analysis via Compositional Entity Extraction EMNLP 2025

Choose Your Transformer: Improved Transferability Estimation of Transformer Models on Classification Tasks ACL 2024

Fundus: A Simple-to-Use News Scraper Optimized for High Quality Extractions ACL 2024

PECC: Problem Extraction and Coding Challenges COLING 2024

BabyHGRN: Exploring RNNs for Sample-Efficient Language Modeling CONLL 2024

Large-Scale Label Interpretation Learning for Few-Shot Named Entity Recognition EACL 2024

Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning: Is There An Optimal Subset of Parameters to Tune? EACL 2024

Less is More: Parameter-Efficient Selection of Intermediate Tasks for Transfer Learning EMNLP 2024

NoiseBench: Benchmarking the Impact of Real Label Noise on Named Entity Recognition EMNLP 2024

OpinionGPT: Modelling Explicit Biases in Instruction-Tuned LLMs NAACL 2024

BEAR: A Unified Framework for Evaluating Relational Knowledge in Causal and Masked Language Models NAACL 2024

CleanCoNLL: A Nearly Noise-Free Named Entity Recognition Dataset EMNLP 2023

ZELDA: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Supervised Entity Disambiguation EACL 2023

Fabricator: An Open Source Toolkit for Generating Labeled Training Data with Teacher LLMs EMNLP 2023

Medical Coding with Biomedical Transformer Ensembles and Zero/Few-shot Learning NAACL 2022

Early Detection of Sexual Predators in Chats ACL 2021

Early Detection of Sexual Predators in Chats IJCNLP 2021

Task-Aware Representation of Sentences for Generic Text Classification COLING 2020

FLAIR: An Easy-to-Use Framework for State-of-the-Art NLP NAACL 2019

Pooled Contextualized Embeddings for Named Entity Recognition NAACL 2019

Contextual String Embeddings for Sequence Labeling COLING 2018

CROWD-IN-THE-LOOP: A Hybrid Approach for Annotating Semantic Roles EMNLP 2017

The Projector: An Interactive Annotation Projection Visualization Tool EMNLP 2017

Multilingual Information Extraction with PolyglotIE COLING 2016

Multilingual Aliasing for Auto-Generating Proposition Banks COLING 2016

K-SRL: Instance-based Learning for Semantic Role Labeling COLING 2016

POLYGLOT: Multilingual Semantic Role Labeling with Unified Labels ACL 2016

Towards Semi-Automatic Generation of Proposition Banks for Low-Resource Languages EMNLP 2016

Generating High Quality Proposition Banks for Multilingual Semantic Role Labeling IJCNLP 2015

SCHNÄPPER: A Web Toolkit for Exploratory Relation Extraction IJCNLP 2015

SCHNÄPPER: A Web Toolkit for Exploratory Relation Extraction ACL 2015

Generating High Quality Proposition Banks for Multilingual Semantic Role Labeling ACL 2015

Exploratory Relation Extraction in Large Text Corpora COLING 2014

Nerdle: Topic-Specific Question Answering Using Wikia Seeds COLING 2014

Propminer: A Workflow for Interactive Information Extraction and Exploration using Dependency Trees ACL 2013

Effective Selectional Restrictions for Unsupervised Relation Extraction IJCNLP 2013

Unsupervised Discovery of Relations and Discriminative Extraction Patterns COLING 2012